There's so many people who just flatly say that it is impossible for ChatGPT to do what it plainly does, and I think it's largely because early explanations of how it works were so bad. "Stochastic parrot" was a particularly obnoxious one, that wasn't even entirely true for gpt-2 and certainly wasn't accurate for GPT-3, and just seems silly trying to apply it to GPT-4.